Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 11 Apr 2013 BUY the sheet music (1 vce or 2 vce round) – $3.95 How good are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel! [Num. 24:5] As for me, O God abounding in grace, I enter your house to worship with awe in Your sacred place. [Ps …
Music & audio © Alexander Massey 11 April 2013 BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces) – $3.95 (lead sheet) Meditative music must begin from silence. We must be prepared to enter silence first, because that is the most fertile space for beginning prayer. When I had my hand-woven tallit (prayer shawl) made, its …
On Shabbat, we mark the completion of Creation, and the establishment of God, not humanity, as the Ruler of Creation. Psalm 93 – beginning with the words Adonai malach – is one of many affirmations of this in traditional Shabbat liturgy. When we sing Psalm 93, with full voices (not half-heartedly!), especially as a call …
Composition and recording © Alexander Massey – 14 March 2013 BUY the sheet music (3 vces) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) Who is like You among the gods, O God? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, awesome in splendour, doing wonders? A new song the redeemed sang to Your name at the shore …
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 14 March 2013 Watch/listen on YouTube BUY the sheet music (solo & pno) – $4.95 BUY the sheet music (SATB & pno) – $11.25 (5 copies @ $2.25) Commentary The words of Mi chamocha are taken from the Song at the Sea (Shirat Hayam) in Exodus 15, and are …
These are my personal notes that I made when I read: Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi (2012) Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer, Jewish Lights . When I make notes, they are just to jog my own memory of the book, so I am aware that they may not always make sense to the general …
These are my personal notes that I made when I read: Mike Comins (2010) Making Prayer Real: Leading Jewish Spiritual Voices on Why Prayer Is Difficult and What to Do about It, Jewish Lights. When I make notes, they are just to jog my own memory of the book, so I am aware that they may not …
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Music and recording © Alexander Massey 22 January 2013 Here is the same music, but sung to my own English translation: Music, English lyrics and recording © Alexander Massey 22 January 2013 BUY the sheet music – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) – includes options for 1 or 2 voices, piano or guitar part (also …
Oseh Shalom No. 2 – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, 12 Sept 2012 BUY the sheet music (solo lead sheet) – $3.95 BUY the sheet music (2 vces & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) I wrote this piece originally for the Yom Kippur Musaf service. This melody is based on musical motifs …
Psalm 92:6 Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 25 March 2012 BUY the sheet music (round – 3 vces & pno) – $9 (4 copies @ $2.25) “How great are your works, God! Your thoughts are very deep.” The morning service includes Psalm 92 Tov l’hodot (‘It is a good thing to give thanks to …